It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.