When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne. — 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
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do.… — 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
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
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once;… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most… — 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
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may… — 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
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
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
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
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
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
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
We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can;… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share
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
