Charity is the root of all good works.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.