142 Quotes by Sophie Swetchine

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

What I value most next to eternity is time.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.