Horace

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.