“Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to t...” — Horace Walpole Quote

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

My colleagues across the aisle love to talk about a 'two-tiered system of justice' in America, and they are not wrong - but this two-tiered system overwhelmingly protects powerful, rich white men like Trump, and disadvantages poor people of color, like my former clients.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don't want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.