264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.

Consult duty not events.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.