Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. — 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
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. — 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
Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the… — 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
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
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
