Horace

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

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.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

God’s first creature, which was light.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Oftentimes, it’s the way we react to change that is the thing that determines the overall experience.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

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.

I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.