Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.