Horace

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

Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

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

Anger is a brief lunacy.

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.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

When the eye is not set on one leaf and you face the tree with nothing in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.