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
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. – Walter Savage Landor
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. – 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
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
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
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. – Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. – 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
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
