Horace

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

All diseases run into one, old age.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it….