Letitia Elizabeth Landon on Society

“-- social life is fill’d With doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, When the imagination is dethroned, Is turned to weariness.”

“I see clearly that society is as much a science as astronomy; and, also, that, like poetry, one must be born with a genius for it.”

“Full quote: Truly, society is like a large piece of frozen water ; there are the rough places to be shunned, the very slippery ones all ready for a fall, and the holes which seem made expressly to drown you. All that can be done is to glide lightly over them. Skating well is the great art of social life.”