264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.