Walter Savage LandorThinkers

Absence is no suffering.

Anger is a state which, to bring a man to in an argument is to have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

The Cat is like men, a flatterer.

The Cat is an animal which, when it flatters, it is not insincere: You may safely take it for real kindness.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings. Compassion, in the first instance, is good for both ; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man ; it is his love.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

A Great man is one who knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.