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

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Patience is the courage of virtue.

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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 Nat…

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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 th…

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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 e…

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. Af…

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre