How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.

What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.