“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ Risen.
“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar
“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat