We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
Sophie SwetchineThe symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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 Swetchine