Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

To sing is to pray twice.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.