I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
Horace WalpoleCunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.
Horace WalpoleBy deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace Walpole