He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

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

All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.