By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.