Letitia Elizabeth Landon on Pleasure

“Like the cards which form a child's plaything palace, our pleasures are nicely balanced one upon the other.”

“He had been used to that greatest of mental pleasures — to have his thoughts often divined — always entered into.”

“Look upon that hour-marked round, Listen to that fateful sound ; There my silent hand is stealing. My more silent course revealing ; Wild, devoted Pleasure, hear, — Stay thee on thy mad career !”