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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Fate of Adelaide, 1821, "Fable"

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.”

“It was not song that taught me love, / But it was love that taught me song.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.”

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”