There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

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.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.