Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”

“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”

“A woman's heart is a mystery that is never solved.”

“Of all the paths that lead to a woman's heart, pity is the straightest.”

“We might have been!—these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.”

“The first, the last, the best, the worst of feelings is—love.”

“Fame's a sweet cheat.”

“Youth is a dream, a blissful and a brief one.”

“Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, and manage it against despairing thoughts.”

“Alas! we make a ladder of our thoughts, where angels step, but sleep ourselves at the foot.”

“A tear is an intellectual thing.”

“Poetry is in itself a thing of feeling.”

“The heart is a book in which one has but to read.”

“Memory is the golden thread that binds all the activities of our life.”

“Spring, the beautiful, is coming! The earth is putting on her first green.”