142 Quotes by Sophie Swetchine

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.