Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.