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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven
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.
Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.