Quotes by Letitia Landon

• All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
• We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
• A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
• Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
• An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
• 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.
• How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
• 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.
• Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
• There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
• We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
• 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 o social life.