He who labours, prays.

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

Make friends with angels.

For in our hope we are saved.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.