The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.