An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who… — 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
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be… — 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
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise… — 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
Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are… — 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
