Quotes By Walter Savage Landor

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

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.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Consult duty not events.

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.

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