“Love, and do what you like.”
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
“The greatest evil is physical pain.”
“Punishment is justice for the unjust.”
“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.”
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
“Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.”
“To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
“No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.”
“I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!”
“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”
“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.”
“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
“To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.”
“I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”
“Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
“He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”
“I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''”
“Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?”
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.”