Walpole

Famous quotes containing the word walpole:

“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)