Walter Savage Landor
8 quotes.
Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
- Circumstances are things round about; we are in them, not under them.
- Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are: the turbid seem the most profound.
- Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
- Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
- No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
- The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun.
- Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
- Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.