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

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

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

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

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

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