Horace

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

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

Those that are little, little things suit.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union. We are told that we ought not to treat it seriously. The Times talked of the childrens hour. I disagree. It is a very disquieting and disgusting symptom. One can almost feel the curl of contempt upon the lips of the manhood of Germany, Italy, and France when they read the message sent out by Oxford University in the name of Young England. Let them be assured that it is not the last word. But before they blame, as blame they should, these callow ill-tutored youths, they must be sure that they have not been set a bad example by people much older and much higher up.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

The most beautiful woman is the one who is never divulging, she knows what she is and everything else is worth her.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.