Horace

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

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

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

To know fulfillment, nourish what is for the belly and not the eye.

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.