Horace

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

A picture is a poem without words.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Every old poem is sacred.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.