All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.