We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Category Archive: Walter Savage Landor
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Consult duty not events.
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.