Horace

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

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

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.

Part of her mystery is how she is calm in the storm and anxious in the quiet.

Dare to think for yourself.

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.

But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature.

It is possible to be free and loving no matter what your circumstances.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.