Horace Walpole Quotes

This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

I am in a moment of pretty wellness.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain to a third of public ridicule to a fourth of poverty to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.

To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom and the best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.