Horace

There is nothing assured to mortals.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Gold will be slave or master.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

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

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

People ignore the thing they have the most power over. I know so many people who will go to a protest and do something big on an issue. But they won’t deal with that issue in their home.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

You sold me a dream and it shattered. I didn’t know how to put it back together again. So instead, I’m lovingly gluing those fragments anew with seams of gold, creating a vibrant new dream, rendering the broken strong and more than ever, breathtakingly beautiful.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.