The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling