142 Quotes by Sophie Swetchine

Youth should be a savings bank.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

There is a transcendent power in example.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.