By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. -Horace Walpole Respect
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. -Horace Walpole Science
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 Imagination
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 Humor
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. -Horace Walpole Life
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. -Horace Walpole Poetry
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 Age
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. -Horace Walpole Society
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 Truth
