Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!

How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!

If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.

Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.