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

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- 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

Great men always pay deference to greater.

- Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

- Walter Savage Landor

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

- Walter Savage Landor

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- Walter Savage Landor

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- Walter Savage Landor

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- 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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

- Walter Savage Landor

Consult duty not events.

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- 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