No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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

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

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor

Delay in justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Walter Savage Landor

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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 flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Walter Savage Landor

Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor

Biography
Nationality: English
Type: Poet
Born: January 30, 1775
Died: September 17, 1864