Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#experience #hand #large #nobody #other

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#dislike #general #incomprehensible #obnoxious #people

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#frozen #great #great art #large #life

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#buds #fragrant #harvest #honey #rose

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 Elizabeth Landon

#did #faded #flowers #gladness #last

All sweeping assertions are erroneous. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#erroneous #sweeping

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#lamp #light #like #over #quotation

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#dew #heart #own #tears

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 Elizabeth Landon

#divine #enthusiasm #false #generous #great

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#few #poor #save