Horace Walpole

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy…

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in…

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us…

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of…

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense…

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain…

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of…

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them…