Horace

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He’ll beat you all at piety.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau Henry Thoreaus auntHenry, why are you here? Waldo, why are you not here?

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.