Madame Swetchine

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

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

By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

Courtesy in the world is by no means a false and culpable pretense. It softens rather than dissimulates and on the whole since it deceives nobody it cannot be accused of falsehood.