Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — 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
I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. — 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
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — 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
