Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens.

What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

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

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.