He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!

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.

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

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.