Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre Quotes

#1. 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.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#2. 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

#3. 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.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#5. Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#7. 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.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#8. There is never but one pleasant side to this human life. Like the globe on which we turn, our own rapid rotation is but one day, and a part of this day cannot receive light, so that the other part will not be delivered into darkness.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#9. Patience is the courage of virtue.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#10. 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.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#13. Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre