Letitia Elizabeth Landon Life Quotations

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.