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.

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

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.

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

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

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