The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.