Horace

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

I teach that all men are mad.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one’s destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.