Walter Savage Landor Quotes

The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

We talk on principle but we act on interest.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.