“Love, passionate young Love, how sweet it is / To have the bosom made a Paradise / By thee—life lighted by thy rainbow smile!”— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, A Village Tale, The London Literary Gazette, 1823Share
“Yes ; look thro' the world, and this truth you will find / That, once out of sight, you are soon out of mind.”— Letitia Elizabeth LandonShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.”— Mary OliverShare
“Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.”— E. M. ForsterShare
“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”— Edward AbbeyShare
“A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”— Laurence SterneShare
“Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.”— Josh BillingsShare
