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Walter Savage Landor - From the Activity category:
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Aging category:
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Ambition category:
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Authority category:
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Books category:
What is reading but silent conversation? (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Books category:
He who praises a good book becomingly, is next in merit to the author. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Competition category:
Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Contentment category:
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Future category:
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Goodness category:
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Gratitude category:
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Greatness category:
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Greatness category:
Great men always pay deference to greater. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Happiness category:
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Humanity category:
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Life category:
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Motivation category:
We talk on principal, but act on motivation. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Music category:
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Nature category:
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Pleasure category:
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Poetry category:
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)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Religion category:
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Truth category:
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Vanity category:
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor - From the Wisdom category:
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. (Walter Savage Landor)
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