Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

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

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.