Walter Savage Landor
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.Collection: God
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.Collection: Happiness
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.Collection: Happiness
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.Collection: Anger
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.Collection: Religion
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.Collection: Age
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.Collection: Poetry
Delay in justice is injustice.
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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.
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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.
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Consult duty not events.
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
How sweet and sacred idleness is!Collection: Sweet
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.Collection: Government
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.Collection: Fear
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.Collection: Life
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.Collection: Life
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.Collection: Greatness
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.Collection: Money
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.Collection: Wise
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.Collection: Library
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.Collection: Art
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.Collection: Practice
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.Collection: Men
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.Collection: Home
Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.Collection: Greatness
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.Collection: Poetry