Horace

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

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.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.