Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.

The devil never sleeps.

God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.