Horace

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.

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

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Hurricanes are named after people, baby, and I hope you know that falling in love with me will be so much more treacherous than boarding up the windows and waiting for me to pass.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.