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

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor

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

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

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Walter Savage Landor

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Walter Savage Landor

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

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor

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

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor

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