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 Image
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable. — 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
