Walter Savage Landor

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

“Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.”

“An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.”

“Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.”

“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”

“Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.”

“Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.”

“No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.”

“There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.”

“In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.”

“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.”

“The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.”

“Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.”

“Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.”

“I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.”

“Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!”

“The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.”

“Great men always pay deference to greater.”

“When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.”

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