A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Solitude]

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Thoughts and Thinking]

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 - [Poetry and Poets]

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Politicians and Politics]

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Quarrels]

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Justice]

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Merit]

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Motivation]

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Future]

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Goals]

Great men always pay deference to greater.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Greatness]

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Happiness]

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Happiness]

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Humankind]

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

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Death and Dying]

Consult duty not events.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Duty]

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Absence]

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Age and Aging]

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Anger]