Horace

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Shut your mouth, close your lips, and say something!

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.