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 no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away;… — 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
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — 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
