Horace

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Anger is short madness

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within and available to you now.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

You will find only what you bring in.

Choose people who lift you up.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Already know you that which you need.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

An index is a great leveller.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.