Horace

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Tear thyself from delay.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

The time has come to shed this skin. Its cloying inconvenience doesn’t fit me anymore. My new attire strikes color, shine, shadow, makes noise, and may put your teeth on edge. Tough sh–. Get used to it. I’m inviting you to step into your fear and dance with life.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

In charity there is no excess.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.