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

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.

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

Patience is the courage of virtue.

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

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.