Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

He who complains, sins.