Horace

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.