222 Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

affection is a habit.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

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.

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

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

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

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.