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

God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.