Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
Walter Savage LandorEverything 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 LandorMen universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
Walter Savage LandorIn the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
Walter Savage Landor