There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
Madame de Staela perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
Madame de StaelWhen a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael