"Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it."

"Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world."

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things as well."

"Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that th…"

"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relation…"

"The temptation to neglect good ordinary writers, and thereby to exaggerate the importance of the unusual, is one that…"

"Of the general soundness of Mr. Walpole's work I am firmly convinced. He is distinctly a man of his time. We see him …"

"Henry James and John Buchan praised him. Joseph Conrad, T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf were kind about him. What's more…"

"He [Walpole] has done more than any man alive to make modern English writers, some of them struggling, some active an…"

"Mr Walpole’s gift is neither for passion nor for satire, but he possesses an urbane observant humour. He has a true i…"