Horace

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

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

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.