Original: «Olds friends are the greats blessings of one's latter years. Half a word eonveys one's meaning. They have memory of the same events, and have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow old friends? My age forbids that. Still less can they grow companions. Is it a friendship to explain half one says? One must relate the history of one's memory and ideas; and what is that to the young but old stories?»
Fuente: Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors. Autor y compilador Maturin Murray Ballou. Editorial J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Página 190. https://books.google.es/books?id=09M4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214&dq=The+gratitude+of+place-expectants+is+a+lively+sense+of+future+favors.+Robert+Walpole&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt29CclNLfAhVUBGMBHfbnAxYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Walpole&f=false
Frases célebres de Horace Walpole
Original: «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».
Fuente: Bate, John (Wesleyan Minister.) A Cyclopædia of Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths; consisting of definitions, metaphors, similes, emblems, etc.... Editorial H. J. Tresidder; Wesleyan Conference Office, 1865. Página 95. https://books.google.es/books?id=esPenW7YWegC&pg=PA95&dq=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&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhqOelltLfAhXz6OAKHebuBtQQ6AEINjAC#v=onepage&q=Men%20are%20often%20capable%20of%20greater%20things%20than%20they%20perform.%20They%20are%20sent%20into%20the%20world%20with%20bills%20of%20credit%2C%20and%20seldom%20draw%20to%20their%20full%20extent&f=false
Original: «I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to theirs wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of their own economy».
Fuente: Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors. Autor y compilador Maturin Murray Ballou. Editorial J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Página 257. https://books.google.es/books?id=09M4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214&dq=The+gratitude+of+place-expectants+is+a+lively+sense+of+future+favors.+Robert+Walpole&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt29CclNLfAhVUBGMBHfbnAxYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Walpole&f=false
“En toda ciencia, el error precede a la verdad, y es mejor que vaya primero que último.”
Original: «In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last».
Fuente: Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors. Autor y compilador Maturin Murray Ballou. Editorial J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Página 151. https://books.google.es/books?id=09M4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214&dq=The+gratitude+of+place-expectants+is+a+lively+sense+of+future+favors.+Robert+Walpole&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt29CclNLfAhVUBGMBHfbnAxYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Walpole&f=false
Original: «Mystery, the wisdom of blockheads, may be allowable in a foreign minister».
Fuente: Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann: His Britannic Majesty's Resident at the Court of Florence, from 1760 to 1785, Volumen 1. Horace Walpole. Editorial R. Bentley, 1843. Página 12. https://books.google.es/books?id=x5E4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA12&dq=Mystery+is+the+wisdom+of+blockheads.+Horace+Walpole&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZn-6-ktLfAhVx5eAKHRK0CVsQ6AEITzAF#v=onepage&q=Mystery%20is%20the%20wisdom%20of%20blockheads.%20Horace%20Walpole&f=false
Horace Walpole: Frases en inglés
Letter to John Chute, from Houghton, 20 Aug. 1743 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t5p84vt55;view=1up;seq=425, p. 265, The Letter of Horace Walpole, ed. P. Cunnighham, vol. 1