Walter Savage Landor Quotes

We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.

Delay of justice is injustice.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

We talk on principle but we act on interest.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

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.