I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. Horace Walpole Read Quote
I 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 Walpole Read Quote
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. Horace Walpole Read Quote
When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work. Horace Walpole Read Quote
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I’d place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. Horace Walpole Read Quote
The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs. Horace Walpole Read Quote
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. Horace Walpole Read Quote
