“Nothing discourages a child so much as the impossibility of pleasing.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Traits and Trials of Early Life, 1836

About Letitia Elizabeth Landon

1802 – 1838

English poet and novelist, who wrote as "L.E.L."

“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”

“Methinks adieu / Is cold, when uttered with aught else but tears.”

“Yes ; look thro' the world, and this truth you will find / That, once out of sight, you are soon out of mind.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”

“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”

“Hence vain deluding Joys, the brood of Folly without father bred!”

“In love of home, the love of country has its rise.”