Horace

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Tear thyself from delay.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’

Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.