Anne Sophie Swetchine
10 quotes.
Quotes by Anne Sophie Swetchine
- He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving, has but glanced at the joys of charity.
- I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
- "Is not life useful when it is happy?" asks the egotist. "Is it not sufficiently happy when it is useful?" asks the good man.
- There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
- There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
- To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
- We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through what we refuse and keep.
- We forgive too little; forget too much.
- What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
- Years do not make sages; they only make old men.