The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.