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
mean raw-materials human-nature
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
wise knowledge land
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions of truths may be propagated amongst the people.... The whole land must be watered with the streams of knowledge.
weed men hands
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
time causes youth
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.
book giving house
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
ignorance soul ignorant
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
parent sacred causes
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
adversity evil mercy
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
reality men evil
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
truth science light
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
ignorance men ignorant
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
school civilization two
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator.
men yield temptation
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
insane majority vote
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.