Walter Savage Landor Quotes

And Modesty, Who, When She Goes, Is Gone For Ever.

No Good Writer Was Ever Long Neglected; No Great Man Overlooked By Men Equally Great. Impatience Is A Proof Of Inferior Strength, And A Destroyer Of What Little There May Be.

Whatever Is Worthy To Be Loved For Anything Is Worthy Of Preservation. A Wise And Dispassionate Legislator, If Any Such Should Ever Arise Among Men, Will Not Condemn To Death Him Who Has Done Or Is Likely To Do More Service Than Injury To Society. Blocks And Gibbets Are The Nearest Objects With Legislators, And Their Business Is Never With Hopes Or With Virtues.

I Never Did A Single Wise Thing In The Whole Course Of My Existence, Although I Have Written Many Which Have Been Thought So.

The Deafest Man Can Hear Praise, And Is Slow To Think Any An Excess.

I Warmed Both Hands Before The Fire Of Life; It Sinks, And I Am Ready To Depart.

Authors Are Like Cattle Going To A Fair: Those Of The Same Field Can Never Move On Without Butting One Another.

A Little Praise Is Good For A Shy Temper; It Teaches It To Rely On The Kindness Of Others.

I Strove With None; For None Was Worth My Strife.

How Sweet And Sacred Idleness Is!

Nature I Loved, And Next To Nature, Art.

Merit Has Rarely Risen Of Itself, But A Pebble Or A Twig Is Often Quite Sufficient For It To Spring From To The Highest Ascent. There Is Usually Some Baseness Before There Is Any Elevation.