Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël

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

Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël

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.

Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël

Speech happens to not be his language.