since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

...Learn to give thanks for everything.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.