Sophie Swetchine

Youth should be a savings bank.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

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

Repentance is accepted remorse.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

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

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.