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…

— 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

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Patience is the courage of virtue.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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

— 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…

— 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

The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to…

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre