“There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan
“We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization