He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.