264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.