Horace

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

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.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.