When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. — 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
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with… — 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
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
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
It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics… — 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
