Walter Savage Landor

“Cats ask plainly for what they want.”

“When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.”

“Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.”

“Death stands above me,Whispering low I know not what into my ear. ”

“Cats, like men, are flatterers.”

“No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.”

“Dying Speech of an Old PhilosopherI 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.”

“Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.”

“What is reading but silent conversation.”

“We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.”

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