Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it. — Sophie Swetchine Divine Copy Share Image
In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal. — Sophie Swetchine Consolation Copy Share Image
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. — Sophie Swetchine Ancient Copy Share Image
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. — Sophie Swetchine Death 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
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no… — Sophie Swetchine Achilles Copy Share Image
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the… — Sophie Swetchine Christian Copy Share Image
God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better. — 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 Age Copy Share Image
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty. — Sophie Swetchine Duty Copy Share Image
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it. — Sophie Swetchine Action Copy Share Image
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. — Sophie Swetchine Chains Copy Share Image
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. — Sophie Swetchine Aging Copy Share Image
Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of… — Sophie Swetchine Individuality 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 Evaporation Copy Share Image
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. — Sophie Swetchine Altars Copy Share Image
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly… — Sophie Swetchine Benevolence Copy Share Image
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is… — Sophie Swetchine Action Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by… — Sophie Swetchine Enemy Copy Share Image
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other… — Sophie Swetchine Anger 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
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but… — Sophie Swetchine Atoms Copy Share Image
We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day,… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling. — Sophie Swetchine Feelings Copy Share Image
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
