When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
Walter Savage LandorCruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
Walter Savage LandorOf all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
Walter Savage LandorLittle men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
Walter Savage Landor