good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneGloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneIt is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne