It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.
Horace WalpoleHow posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.
Horace WalpoleThe whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole