Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor (1775-01-30 - 1864-09-17) was an English prose-writer on themes drawn from literary history, a verse-dramatist, and a poet.
Found 19 thoughts of 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
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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
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.
Walter Savage Landor
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor
