"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America
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