We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Pity enlarges the heart.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.