Horace

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Make a good use of the present.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, the citizens burning to approve a wrong or the frowning looks of a tyrant. Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, as the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.

I don’t like needing anyone for anything.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

The memory of a day like today reminds me to hold the ones I love that much tighter, that much longer… Take that much more time to be present and to feel the blessing of another day…

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.