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
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
Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next… — 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
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her. — 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
