Horace

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious – except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.