Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

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

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

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.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?