Horace

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

We are free to yield to truth.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.