Walter Savage Landor
22 quotations
Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Consult duty not events.
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.