Horace

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

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

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.

As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.