Horace Walpole Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  Giving, Curiosity, Lasts

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

• The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.

  Horace Walpole

  Anger, Passion, Giving

• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  New York, Discovery, Boston

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

• Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

  Horace Walpole

  People, Giving, Weakness

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