• The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

    Walter Savage Landor: The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
    Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.73