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

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.

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

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

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.

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