Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
Walter Savage LandorI hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
Walter Savage LandorWe cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
Walter Savage LandorIt has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.
Walter Savage Landor