By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. - Horace Walpole 1 Share Now -
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. - Horace Walpole 2 Share Now -
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole 3 Share Now -
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole 4 Share Now -
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. - Horace Walpole 5 Share Now -
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. - Horace Walpole 6 Share Now -
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. - Horace Walpole 7 Share Now -
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. - Horace Walpole 8 Share Now -
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. - Horace Walpole 9 Share Now -
