A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.