Horace Quotes
Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.
It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental moral and spiritual asphyxiation and sometimes death death to energy and all growth.
Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.
And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.
The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.