States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can;… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
