Quotes from Walter Savage Landor

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

Hope is the mother of faith.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

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

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

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.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

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

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