142 Quotes by Sophie Swetchine

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.