Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.Collection: Hope
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.Collection: Sad
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.Collection: Gardening
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.Collection: Art
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.Collection: Moving
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.Collection: Experience
Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.Collection: Littles
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.Collection: Beautiful
Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.Collection: Twilight
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!Collection: Imagination
Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.Collection: Sweet
Confidence is its own security.Collection: Confidence
Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.Collection: Diversity
Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.Collection: Maids
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.Collection: Truth
To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.Collection: Giving
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.Collection: Life
All beginnings are very troublesome things.Collection: Troublesome
The fearless make their own way.Collection: Courage
We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.Collection: Block
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.Collection: Strong
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.Collection: Life Is Too Short
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.Collection: Stars
there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.Collection: Equality
youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.Collection: Summer
Shopping, true feminine felicity!Collection: Shopping
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.Collection: Politics
Childhood, whose very happiness is love.Collection: Children
Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.Collection: Travel
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.Collection: Hopeful
Youth is a season that has no repose.Collection: Youth
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.Collection: Spring
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.Collection: Class
in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.Collection: Baby
The stars are so far, far away!Collection: Stars
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.Collection: Dating