When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.