Quote of the Day

"I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept." – Horatio Walpole (The Earl of Orford)

Horatio Walpole (1717-1797) was an English art historian and antiquarian. He is best known for coining the word “serendipity” (the accidental discovery of something of value) in 1754 in a letter to a friend. Per Wikipedia, Walpole said he derived the term after reading a "silly fairy tale," The Three Princes of Serendip.