Madame de Stael Quotations | Page 2

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.