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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon