The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Love is the symbol of eternity.
It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.