Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] — Madame de Stael
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, — Madame de Stael
Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth. — Madame de Stael
[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe — Madame de Stael