Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

To understand all is to forgive all.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

To understand everything makes one tolerant.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

One must choose in life between boredom and torment.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.