Horace

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial world. The merchants and banks are suspending and failing all the country over, but not the sandbanks, solid and warm, and streaked with bloody blackberry vines.You may run upon them as much as you please – even as the crickets do, and find their account in it. They are the stockholders in these banks, and I hear them creaking their content.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

It’s not the adversity, but how you face it.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means – one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

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