Horace

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

A picture is a poem without words.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That’s right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That’s democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

Remember who you are.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I always like people who have developed long and hard, particularly through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think that what they arrive at is, usually, deeper and more beautiful than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning.

All mankind love a lover.