New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
Madame de Stael... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
Madame de StaelEnthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
Madame de Stael