Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

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.

Expect much of God, and he will do much for you.

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

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

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.

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