Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Sophie SwetchineIf we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
Sophie SwetchineA friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
Sophie Swetchine