Walter Savage Landor

“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.”

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

“What is reading but silent conversation?”

“Delay of justice is injustice.”

“There is nothing on earth divine beside humanity.”

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

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

“Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Children are what the mothers are.”

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