When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
Sophie SwetchineThere are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
Sophie SwetchineI study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
Sophie SwetchineWe do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
Sophie SwetchineLove enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.
Sophie Swetchine