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 LandorAuthors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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 Landor