"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." ― Horace Walpole Topic(s): Life More From Horace Walpole "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." "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony." "By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense." More In Life "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another."― Thomas Merton "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."― Brendan Gill "This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."― Omar N. Bradley