Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.