Horace

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

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

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

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

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

All that appears is devoid of independent existence, just like a magical apparition or a dream.