Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Walter Savage LandorThe habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
Walter Savage LandorThe worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
Walter Savage Landor