To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.
The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.
There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.
Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.
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.