1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor – [Justice]
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor – [Solitude]
Absence and death are the same — only that in death there is no suffering.
Walter Savage Landor – [Absence]
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor – [Merit]
Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor – [Duty]
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Walter Savage Landor – [Future]
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor – [Greatness]
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
Walter Savage Landor – [Argument]
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor – [Quarrels]
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Walter Savage Landor – [Death and Dying]
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor – [Politicians and Politics]
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor – [Thoughts and Thinking]
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Walter Savage Landor – [Busyness]
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Walter Savage Landor – [Age and Aging]
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor – [Goals]
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor – [Poetry and Poets]
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor – [Anger]
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor – [Writers and Writing]
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor – [Humankind]
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor – [Happiness]