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
growing-up memories blessing
Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?
wise firsts events
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
dots ink misery
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
methodists bigs subjects
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
vices virtue lost
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
pain fear loneliness
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
degenerates ancestor posterity
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
book grace may
Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
fun angel animal
Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!
music children would-be
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
passion liberty sound
If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
suffering tragedy delay
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.
rap axes crooks
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.
scotch void humour
The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.