The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
Walter Savage LandorWhen the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
Walter Savage LandorPrinciples do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor