Horace

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

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

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

I am a sky gazer. The sky, it pulls at me. Its amazing eternal expanse of breathtaking beauty calls me back to my senses, stretches my awareness, soothes my eyes, opens my heart, stills me. I feel a soft soul longing to be up there, in the vastness, amongst the clouds that are alive and billow and skud and glow; metamorphosing from perfection into perfection. A constantly changing canvas brushed by magic.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

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

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.