“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt
“There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country
“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice
“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only
“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