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Danh ngôn của Horace Walpole (Sứ mệnh: 8)

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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.
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.