I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.
Horace WalpoleI shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
Horace WalpoleIt is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.
Horace Walpole