Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

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

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.