Horace

Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Anger is short madness

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

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.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.