Death is the gate of life.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

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.

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

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