Study is the bane of childhood, the oil...

Age

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

- Walter Savage Landor

Quote of the Day

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

- John L. Lewis

Other quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Delight

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

- Walter Savage Landor

Music Art God Man

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

Thoughts

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

- Walter Savage Landor

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

- Walter Savage Landor

Ambition

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

- Walter Savage Landor

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

- Walter Savage Landor

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