Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord.

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.