... whoever has God needs nothing else. God alone suffices.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

There seems to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

I believe that honor and money nearly always go together... . Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.