We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. — 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
Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in… — 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
We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman. — 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 Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — 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 are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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 Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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 Image
