By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace WalpoleOh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Horace WalpoleKing Renรฉ of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.
Horace Walpole