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
law ideas welcome
He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.
tongue expenses
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
grandparent deeds would-be
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
blind impulse conclusion
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
eye ears observation
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
children school two
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
children fables alphabet
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
truth needs knows
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
teacher teaching wish
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
men temptation temptation-life
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
inspirational night sky
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
book land wheat-fields
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field.
education school character
Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?
failing temperance ifs
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.