Sophie Swetchine People Quotations

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.