“Abstinence from low pleasures is the only means of meriting or of obtaining the higher.”
About Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864
Walter Savage Landor was born on 30 January 1775 at Ipsley Court, near Warwick, England, into circumstances of comfort, cultivation, and inherited expectation. His father, Walter Landor, was a physician of substantial means and social standing; his mother, Elizabeth Savage, came from a family whose name and property…