Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
Walter Savage LandorAmbition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
Walter Savage LandorThe moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
Walter Savage LandorBe assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.
Walter Savage Landor