Horace

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Those that are little, little things suit.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

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

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Why do the words I want to say, struggle to come out of my mouth. Why does fear have such a grip over me. I shouldn’t have to battle to say all the complimentary things I so desperately want to share. It shouldn’t be this hard, that I have to force myself; it’s wrong that such loving words, should have to be spoken under such duress. I’m aware of how wrong it is, but withholding is all I have known, even though I desire so badly to share my thoughts and feelings with you, as freely as you do with me.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.