So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

Haste is of the Devil.

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

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