"You are ready to give your life for your honour ... Be ready to give up your honour for your soul."

"You are too calculating. Don't tell me you are young. Youth gives all it can: it gives itself without reserve."

"True virtue is not sad or disagreeable, but pleasantly cheerful."

"All the things of this world are no more than earth. Place them in a heap under your feet and you will be so much the…"

"Gold, silver, jewels: dust, heaps of manure. Gratification, sensual pleasures, satisfaction of the appetites: like a …"

"I am every day more convinced that happiness in Heaven is for those who know how to be happy on earth."

"With God's grace, you have to tackle and carry out the impossible, because anybody can do what is possible."

"Even in our times, despite those who deny God, earth is very close to Heaven."

"The pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance."

"People who are stupid, unscrupulous, or hypocritical, think that others are just the same. And — this is the real pit…"