When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partialy judging, you will find that he is better than you.

When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?