Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
country growing-up men
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
important use mankind
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
religion church trying
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
way
The way we do things is to begin.
wisdom genuine dear
Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
war bayonets republic
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
age illusion
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
writing style wells
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
witty may satirical
You may be witty, but not satirical.
half talent tact
Talent without tact is only half talent.
defeated
Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
simple thinking names
We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.
empathy apathy oblivion
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
spring adversity fire
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.