Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.

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