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

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

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.

"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

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

The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, "Lord! let me be quiet!