Saint

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Haste is of the Devil.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.