Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

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.

Consult duty not events.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.