Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre Quotes
Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.
La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.
An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.
There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.
