Horace

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

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

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.