Madame de Stael Past Quotations

nothing recalls the past like music ...

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

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