"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."

"O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams."

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."

"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."

"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance."

"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."