Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others