Horace

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Kindness, love, strength and determination personified!! Madiba reminds me that everything is possible!

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.