Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
Sophie SwetchineWe do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
Sophie SwetchineTruth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.
Sophie SwetchineWe are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
Sophie Swetchine