Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!