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

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.

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

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.

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

Patience is the courage of virtue.