Walter Savage Landor

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

“We may not be the better for other people's sufferings, but we are the worse for their successes.”

“The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.”

“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”

“Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.”

“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”

“Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.”

“Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.”

“Delay of justice is injustice.”

“What is reading but silent conversation?”

“There is nothing on earth divine beside humanity.”

“Children are what the mothers are.”

“Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.”

“Show me how to live, for I know how to die.”

“Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.”