Mme. SwetchineThinkers

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

Piety softens all that courage bears.

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.