To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,
More Quotes from Horace Walpole:
The whole Scotch nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.Horace Walpole
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Horace Walpole
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
Horace Walpole
History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed
Horace Walpole
Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.
Horace Walpole
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Duty Quotes, Good & Evil Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, World QuotesThe underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
Michael Porter
If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.
John Dingell
And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches.
William Cavendish