Horace

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Logic is like the sword

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Love is only one of many passions.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.