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
girl art school
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.
philosophy looks phrenology
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
men occupation want
Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.
country men oysters
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.
education mother children
When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
heart errors humanity
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
education science humans
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
excellence records biographies
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
undoing
We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
kindness missing undoing
We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.
may cost praise
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
punishment evil prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
children mean bread-of-life
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
men greatness forget
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.