Horace

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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

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

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

There is a crack in everything God has made.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.