When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.