About Horace Walpole: Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
In science, mistakes always precede the truth.
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.
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
