St. Jerome

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

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.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

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.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

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

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

Why do you not practice what you preach.