Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Horace WalpoleLetters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
Horace WalpoleI firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.
Horace WalpoleArt is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.
Horace WalpoleOh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!
Horace WalpoleSerendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.
Horace Walpole