English writer and poet (1775-1864)
This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
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Pericles and Aspasia
Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Pericles and Aspasia
Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
The Pentameron: Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Aphorisms
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations