Horace

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]

Tear thyself from delay.

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

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Those that are little, little things suit.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Coercion is evil precisely because it…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.