Consult duty not events.
Category Archive: Walter Savage Landor
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.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.