The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
Walter Savage LandorAmbition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
Walter Savage LandorMerit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
Walter Savage LandorBe assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.
Walter Savage Landor