Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.
Madame de StaelThe thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
Madame de StaelLife teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
Madame de Stael