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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
HORACE WALPOLE, letter to Lady Ossory, Aug. 16, 1776
Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.
HORACE WALPOLE, Horace Walpole's Miscellany
What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.
HORACE WALPOLE, letter, Jan. 19, 1777
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
HORACE WALPOLE, Horace Walpole's Miscellany
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