“Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.”

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Love knows nothing of order.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

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.

Avoid negativity for positivity.

Avoid people who drain your positivity and dim your light.

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.

The avoidance of struggle is the avoidance of experience.

Don’t use hustling as an avoidance mechanism to dismiss your emotions.

A little weirdness is enough to enjoy life & a little ignorance to avoid the problems.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.