Daily Dose

From Uncollected Prose, Dial Essays, 1841, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

MR. LANDOR

"Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth-century the claims of pure literature. In these busy days of avarice and ambition, when there is so little disposition to profound thought, or to any but the most superficial intellectual entertainments, a faithful scholar receiving from past ages the treasures of wit, and enlarging them by his own love, is a friend and consoler of mankind."

From Walter Savage Landor