Poet Quotes

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.