Horace

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . And since the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God . . . then unless the Father, Son and Spirit are three distinct Nothings, they must be three distinct Substances, and consequently three distinct Gods.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Rest in reason; move in passion.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is – Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

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

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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