We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui. — Sophie Swetchine Amused Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. — Sophie Swetchine Dangerous Copy Share Image
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is… — Sophie Swetchine Age 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 do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. — Sophie Swetchine Character 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
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty… — Sophie Swetchine Century Copy Share Image
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. — Sophie Swetchine Age Copy Share Image
There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins… — Sophie Swetchine Admirable Copy Share Image
Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations. — Sophie Swetchine Freedom 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 Certain 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 Be young Copy Share Image
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. — Sophie Swetchine Action 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
The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love. — Sophie Swetchine Adore 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
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. — Sophie Swetchine Encounters Copy Share Image
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him. — Sophie Swetchine Enjoy 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
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
