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

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.