We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Quote by Walter Savage Landor

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

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

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make...

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make...

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and...

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and...

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

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

We talk on principle, but we act on interest

We talk on principle, but we act on interest

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is...

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is...

Delay in justice is injustice.

Delay in justice is injustice.

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats...

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats...

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

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

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

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to...

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to...