O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.