Horace Quotes
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.