Horace

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Those that are little, little things suit.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

At 70 years old, if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, It would be to use the phrase ‘f**k off’ much more frequently.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.