Quotes from Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!

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!

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

We are ourselves our happiness.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

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.

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.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.