Horace

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

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

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me-I always feel that they have not said enough.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.