If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
Walter Savage LandorI would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
Walter Savage LandorStudy is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage LandorModesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
Walter Savage Landor