A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.