Horace

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.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

The eye is easily frightened.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.

Every time I think I have reached the peak, I look up and see I still have a ways to go. But I look back and see just how far I have come.

A lot of power and bravery is practice. And some of that is taking the risk to try and be at the table. And then when you’re at the table, taking that first risk to open your mouth and risk being rejected.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.