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

The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.