Madame de StaelThinkers

Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest.

Improbability is the heart's truth — In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Life is a long shipwreck whose debris are friendship, glory and love.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Love is only an episode in the life of man, but the entire history of woman's life.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Religion is nothing if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.

Scientific progress is dangerous without moral progress; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next.

Wit is to be found in the likeness of things that are different and in the difference of things that are alike.

Wit is seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike.