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

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

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.

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

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