A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he comes in the clouds of heaven.

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.