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.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

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.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

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.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.