Horace

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Tear thyself from delay.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

I always feel excited when I can do something that’s about what I believe in.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.