LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

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

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

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

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

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

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

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

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

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

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

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

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

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

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

Fame is bought by happiness.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.