Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!
Horace Walpole[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
Horace WalpoleTwo clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?
Horace Walpole