Horace Walpole

"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."

"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."

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

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

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