The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonThat which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.
Letitia Elizabeth Landonyouth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonI cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonSociety is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonIt is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon