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

Heaven is not made for the slothful.

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

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

Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.