The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.