Walter Savage Landor

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Delay in justice is injustice.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.