Madame de Stael

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.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

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

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.