Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

— Horace Walpole

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

— Horace Walpole

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

— Horace Walpole

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

— Horace Walpole

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

— Horace Walpole

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

— Horace Walpole

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

— Horace Walpole

The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

— Horace Walpole

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

— Horace Walpole

This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

— Horace Walpole