Suzanne Curchod Quotes - Page 2

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.