Horace Quotes
I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.
We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.
It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
