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

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

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Letitia Landon

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

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

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

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