“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book II, Ch. 10

About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 – 1882

American poet, author of 'The Song of Hiawatha' and 'Paul Revere's Ride'.

“Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!”

“Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.”

“From labor there shall come forth rest.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”

“Youth is intoxication without wine.”

“The Bird of Time has but a little way to fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.”

“Time wasted is existence, used is life.”

“No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.”