"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain " — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Source: Emma (1815)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Source: On the Grasshopper and Cricket (1816)

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Source: Poems in Two Volumes, The World is Too Much With Us (1807)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote