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
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
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
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
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
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
