“It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.”

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.

Don’t ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON’T.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.