Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyesMay weep, but never see,A night of memories and of sighsI consecrate to thee.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.