Quotes from Walter Savage Landor

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

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

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Delay in justice is injustice.

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

Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juice intended for the germ of love.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

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

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

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

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

And about her courts were seen Liveried angels robed in green, Wearing, by St PatrickÂ's bounty, Emeralds big as half the county.

Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyesMay weep, but never see,A night of memories and of sighsI consecrate to thee.

Ah what avails the sceptred race,Ah what the form divine!

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.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.