Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. – Horace Walpole
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if ones tongue dont move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. – Horace Walpole
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – Horace Walpole
In a mans letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. – Samuel Johnson