Horace

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, the citizens burning to approve a wrong or the frowning looks of a tyrant. Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, as the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.’ I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her… I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

I don’t do quagmires.

Friends are thieves of time.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.