“While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.”

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

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.

You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.

That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Empty words are evil.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.