You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely speak to any, either of the same or a different sex, without causing them to fall in some degree from purity; they have poison in their eyes and in their breath, like basilisks. On the contrary, keep company with the chaste and virtuous; often meditate upon and read holy things; for the word of God is chaste, and makes those also chaste that delight in it.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.