Love and do as you will.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.