A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.