As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence;… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men? — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring,… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share
