George Sand said that she was Chopin's only passion.

Karasowski describes her as "particularly tender-hearted and rich in all the truly womanly virtues.....For her quietness and homeliness were the greatest happiness." K.W.Wojcicki, in "Cmentarz Powazkowski" (Powazki Cemetery), expresses, himself in the same strain.

A Scotch lady, who had seen Justina Chopin in her old age, and conversed with her in French, told me that she was then "a neat, quiet, intelligent old lady, whose activeness contrasted strongly with the languor of her son, who had not a shadow of energy in him." With regard to the latter part of this account, we must not overlook the fact that my informant knew Chopin only in the last year of his life--i.e., when he was in a very suffering state of mind and body.

This is all the information I have been able to collect regarding the character of Chopin's mother.

Moreover, Karasowski is not an altogether trustworthy informant; as a friend of the Chopin family he sees in its members so many paragons of intellectual and moral perfection.