“A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.”

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

Woman is the root of all evil.

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds – a totally different dimension from the daily life.

There is only one you. Your life is beyond Valuable. Don’t let disappointment and rejection harden your heart. You are wonderful.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.