Horace

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

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

Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]

The more experiments you make the better.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!

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

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.