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• What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.
  -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Epistles, i, 12, 19...
• In adversity remember to keep an even mind. -- Horace (8 BC)
• No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 18, 1...
• The following was written as a part of an application for a small business loan by a group of developers in the city of Monroe.
  "A jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise....
• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. -- Horace (65-8 B.C.)
• LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not.
  Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his electio...
• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• It seems that nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds, talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
  The passions alone have the privilege of bringing them to light, and of giving us sometimes views more certain and more perfect than art could possible produce....
• SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are attached.
  Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity....