We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevignelong journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneThere is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne