Letitia Elizabeth Landon on Feelings

“How much we give to thoughts and things our tone-painting, And judge of others' feelings by our own!”

“Sentiment, by the by, is one of those ill-used words which, from being often misemployed, require a definition when properly applied. Sentiment is the poetry of feeling. Feeling weeps over the grave of the beloved — sentiment weeps, and plants the early flower and the green tree, to weep too.”