Walter Savage Landor

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.

— Walter Savage Landor

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

— Walter Savage Landor

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

What is reading, but silent conversation.

— Walter Savage Landor

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

— Walter Savage Landor

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

— Walter Savage Landor

Consult duty not events.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

— Walter Savage Landor

Great men always pay deference to greater.

— Walter Savage Landor

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

— Walter Savage Landor

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

— Walter Savage Landor

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

— Walter Savage Landor

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

— Walter Savage Landor

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

— Walter Savage Landor

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

— Walter Savage Landor

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

— Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

— Walter Savage Landor

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

— Walter Savage Landor

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

— Walter Savage Landor

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

— Walter Savage Landor

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

— Walter Savage Landor