Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. Horace Walpole
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace Walpole
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighbouring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. Horace Walpole
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. Horace Walpole
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. Horace Walpole