The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
~ Horace Walpole
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.
I am in a moment of pretty wellness.
The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
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.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
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.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
