Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
rooms be-careful retiring
Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.
men moral intellect
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
truth-is true-religion variance
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
men class names
So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!
world causes events
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
pleasure
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
self errors rejoice
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
education apples educated
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
home amulets poor
Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
school character night
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.
school police
School is the cheapest police.
time may punctuality
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
angel goal pathways
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
mind enlargement fields
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.