The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment fro…

- Hugh Walpole

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

- Hugh Walpole

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

- Hugh Walpole

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

- Hugh Walpole

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

- Hugh Walpole

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

- Hugh Walpole

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

- Hugh Walpole

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than material…

- Hugh Walpole

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

- Hugh Walpole