Horace

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Already know you that which you need.

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The future is purchased by the present.

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Broken, like a mosaic, I am pieced together. I am still a piece of art, though I may not be fully appreciated by all, the ones that see the beauty, are the ones who have the understanding; gained through experience, that to break, doesn’t mean to give up.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.