A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor

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

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor

Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor

Delay in justice is injustice.
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

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

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Walter Savage Landor

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


Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor

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

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Walter Savage Landor

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Walter Savage Landor