Horace

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. [Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.]

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

With a burst of joy, my heels sprout wings, smile dancing. My heart sings like a bird caged, set free to soar, senses heightened like never before. Life. Is. Good.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

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

Necessity does everything well.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.