It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
Madame de StaelIf one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
Madame de StaelThat past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de Stael