Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

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

“A tear is an intellectual thing.”

“Fame's a sweet cheat.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Poetry is in itself a thing of feeling.”

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

“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.”

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