A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
– Walter Savage Landor
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
– Walter Savage Landor
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
– Walter Savage Landor
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
– Walter Savage Landor
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
– Walter Savage Landor
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
– Walter Savage Landor
Consult duty not events.
– Walter Savage Landor
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
– Walter Savage Landor
Great men always pay deference to greater.
– Walter Savage Landor
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
– Walter Savage Landor
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
– Walter Savage Landor
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
– Walter Savage Landor
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
– Walter Savage Landor
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
– Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
– Walter Savage Landor
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
– Walter Savage Landor
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
– Walter Savage Landor
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
– Walter Savage Landor
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
– Walter Savage Landor
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
– Walter Savage Landor
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
– Walter Savage Landor
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
– Walter Savage Landor
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
– Walter Savage Landor
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.
– Walter Savage Landor
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
– Walter Savage Landor
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
– Walter Savage Landor
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
– Walter Savage Landor
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
– Walter Savage Landor
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
– Walter Savage Landor
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
– Walter Savage Landor
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
– Walter Savage Landor
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
– Walter Savage Landor
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
– Walter Savage Landor
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.