A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius. Walter Savage Landor More Quotes by Walter Savage Landor More Quotes From Walter Savage Landor There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. Walter Savage Landor divinehumanityearth I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Walter Savage Landor firehandsart We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor wishhappyhappiness Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. Walter Savage Landor his-lovepleasuremen Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. Walter Savage Landor childhoodoilage Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Walter Savage Landor musicinspirationart My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. Walter Savage Landor togetherideasthinking We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. Walter Savage Landor happy-and-contentedinner-peacehappiness Solitude is the audience-chamber of God. Walter Savage Landor wisdomgodwise Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content. Walter Savage Landor wisedoubtmind No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman. Walter Savage Landor girlhatredfriendship The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. Walter Savage Landor flamesangerlove Cats like men are flatterers. Walter Savage Landor flatterycatmen Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. Walter Savage Landor weightbearshands If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him. Walter Savage Landor angerovercomingmen When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. Walter Savage Landor catrealkindness Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue. Walter Savage Landor gamblingnamesmen An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone. Walter Savage Landor unhappypraisemind Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. Walter Savage Landor gratitudememorieslying We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. Walter Savage Landor applausepraisewise
