Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.