When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner feelings. It needs no popular opinions as its reward in any way; nor has it any fear of punishments. Thus the less it strives for glory, the more it rises above it. For to those who seek for glory, that reward in the shape of present things is but a shadow of future ones, and is a hindrance to eternal life, as it is written in the Scriptures: 'Truly I say to you, they have received their reward'

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

The Psalms are the voices of the church.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

No one heals himself by wounding another.