ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonSneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonIt is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.
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 Landon