264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Hope is the mother of faith.

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

Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

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