As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a… — 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
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
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another… — 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
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
If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him. — 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
