Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline;… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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
I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But… — 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
