Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

- Sophie Swetchine

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

- Sophie Swetchine

Youth should be a savings bank.

- Sophie Swetchine

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

- Sophie Swetchine

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

- Sophie Swetchine

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

- Sophie Swetchine

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

- Sophie Swetchine

In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

- Sophie Swetchine

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

- Sophie Swetchine

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

- Sophie Swetchine

Repentance is accepted remorse.

- Sophie Swetchine

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

- Sophie Swetchine

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

- Sophie Swetchine

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

- Sophie Swetchine

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

- Sophie Swetchine

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

- Sophie Swetchine

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

- Sophie Swetchine

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

- Sophie Swetchine