All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.