If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

Patience is the courage of virtue.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.

Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age the golden is before us.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.