A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

In so far as divine love beautifies our souls. And makes us pleasing to His divine Majesty, it is called grace; in so far as it gives us strength to do good, it is called charity; but when it reaches such a degree of perfection, that it makes us not only do the good, but do so carefully, frequently and readily, then it is called devotion.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.