I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
Horace WalpoleBy deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace WalpoleI avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
Horace WalpoleOh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Horace Walpole