St. Jerome

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”

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

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

“Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.”

“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.”

“Why do you not practice what you preach.”

“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.”

“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”

“A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.”

“It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.”

“They talk like angels but they live like men.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The scars of others should teach us caution.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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