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.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

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.