Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

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

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.

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

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