Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor Quotes
More Walter Savage Landor Quotes
- Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
- We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
- The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
- Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry
- Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame
- Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and
- The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
- Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
- Great men always pay deference to greater.