The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.