Quotes by : Walter Savage Landor

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

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

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them....

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

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly....

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

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

What is reading but silent conversation?

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

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.