Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

What do you possess if you possess not God?

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.