There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

God asks little, but He gives much.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.