Horace

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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

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

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]

Those that are little, little things suit.

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

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

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?.

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?

We all really basically have a lot of magic … it’s only those of us that choose to accept it that really understand it.

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not hide from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.

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

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Knowledge is power.