It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonOccupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonHow beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowersโthat deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon