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
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.
heart sacrifice causes
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
education men balance
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
mind firsts influence
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.
courage character thinking
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
money honesty integrity
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
education quality infinite
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
helping-others compassion help-and-support
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
helping-others helping self-help
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.