Horace

A picture is a poem without words.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

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

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

One farmer says to me, ‘You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;’ and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.