Horace

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

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

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Tear thyself from delay.

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

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

It’s them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

It is proved…that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.