Horace

Anger is a brief lunacy.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sellexactly our own history over again.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man’s crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

The money men make lives after them.