What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.

To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.