The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
In T. Harry Williams ‘Huey Long’ (1969)
Hell, I was born barefoot.
To a rival candidate, who had claimed he never wore shoes until he was eight, in T. Harry Williams ‘Huey
Long’ (1969)
12.120 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-82
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where.
‘The Arrow and the Song’ (1845)
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
‘The Building of the Ship’ (1849)
Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead.
‘Children’ (1849)
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,
That is known as the Children’s Hour.
‘The Children’s Hour’ (1859)
The cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
‘The Day is Done’ (1844)
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
‘Elegiac Verse’ (1880)
This is the forest primeval.
‘Evangeline’ (1847) introduction
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
‘Evangeline’ (1847) pt. 2, l. 60
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ’mid snow and ice,