The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man