It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

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.