Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!