Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
Walter Savage LandorPrinciples do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage LandorThe happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
Walter Savage LandorWe cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
Walter Savage Landor