How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

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

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.