The greatest medicine is a true friend.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

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.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

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