Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.