The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

The diversity of language alienates man from man

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

Singing is a lover's thing.

Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.