Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.”

“All sweeping assertions are erroneous.”

“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”

“We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.”

“Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.”

“How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.”

“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.”

“Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.”

“Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.”

“I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.”

“Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?”

“Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.”

“Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.”

“There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.”

“A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.”

“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”

“Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.”

“Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?”