Horace

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

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Anger is short madness

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.