Walter Savage Landor Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864
Birthday: January 30
Death: September 17
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
source: Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.18
topic: Compassion, Suffering, Cuckoos, Compunction
