I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.