James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Madame Necker

Eminent positions are like the summits of rocks; only eagles and reptiles can get there.

Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands of the good.

Gallantry thrives most in a court atmosphere.

How enormous appear the crimes we have not committed!

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

We smile at the satire expended upon the follies of others, but we forget to weep at our own.

Woman’s tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.