in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.
Madame de StaelThere 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 StaelPrayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael