Sophie Swetchine
Sophie Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine, known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, born in Moscow, and famous for her salon in Paris...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryRussian Federation
practice people good-man
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.
book reading people
People read every thing nowadays, except books.
honesty men people
I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
compassion gun people
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
kindness eye steps
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
law common-sense common
The law of common sense.
somebody
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.
clumsy enemies force malicious resisted
In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
bears piety
Piety softens all that courage bears.
apples one-day world
We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
faith believe inventory
The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.
faith life-is-like burning
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.
experience prophet historian
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.