“Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.”

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.