Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. — 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
