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

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
Letitia Landon

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

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
Letitia 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 Landon

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
Letitia Landon

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Letitia 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 Landon

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Letitia Landon


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

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

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

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

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

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