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
love home light
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
taken literature borders
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
example easier highways
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
overcoming habit instinct
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
jesus real character
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.
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.