Patience is the courage of virtue.

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.

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

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.

Patience is the courage of virtue.

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.