Letters
A source page for quotes linked to Eugenie de Guerin.
“We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.”
“Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.”
“in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.”
“One fancies that what one loves cannot die.”
“The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.”
“Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.”
“Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.”
“Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.”
“Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?”