The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man’s love of himself.
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
The playthings of our elders are called business.
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
Hell was made for the inquisitive.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
The Devil invented gambling.
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves.
Anger is a weed; hate is a tree.
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, “It is enough,” you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
You don’t love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.