216 Quotes by Madame de Stael

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one’s life.

And all the bustle of departure – sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating – just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, – a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

Man’s most valuable faculty is his imagination.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end – the civilization of mankind.

The mind’s pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord’s Prayer.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.