Begin Now What You Will Be Hereafter.

Beauty When Unadorned Is Adorned The Most.

The Best Advice That I Can Give You Is This. Church-traditions — Especially When They Do Not Run Counter To The Faith — Are To Be Observed In The Form In Which Previous Generations Have Handed Them Down; And The Use Of One Church Is Not To Be Annulled Because It Is Contrary To That Of Another.

When The Stomach Is Full, It Is Easy To Talk Of Fasting.

To Read Without Writing Is To Sleep.

Who Would Have Believed That The Daughters Of That Mighty City Would One Day Be Wandering As Servants And Slaves On The Shores Of Egypt And Africa, Or That Bethlehem Would Daily Receive Noble Romans, Distinguished Ladies, Brought Up In Wealth And Now Reduced To Beggary? I Cannot Help Them All, But I Grieve And Weep With Them, And Am Completely Absorbed In The Duties Which Charity Imposes On Me. I Have Put Aside My Commentary On Ezekiel And Almost All Study. For Today We Must Translate The Precepts Of The Scriptures Into Deeds; Instead Of Speaking Saintly Words, We Must Act Them.