Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
