La mort, mon fils, est un bien pour tous les hommes; elle est la nuit de ce jour … - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

La mort, mon fils, est un bien pour tous les hommes; elle est la nuit de ce jour inquiet qu'on appelle la vie. Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life.

Bien, Day, Death, My Son, Night, Son

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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. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

Doubt, Doute, Est, Life Is, Matched, States

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.

Abandons, Christian, Man, Order, Women

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.

Bien, Body, Corps, Solitude, Soul

Patience is the courage of virtue.

Courage, Patience, Virtue

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.

Finds, Life, Pain, Sickness, Sleep, Son