Horace

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

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

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

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

Gold will be slave or master.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgment.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.