Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

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

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.