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.

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

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.

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

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.

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