Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. – St. Jerome
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. – St. Jerome
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. – St. Jerome
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. – St. Jerome
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. – St. Jerome
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. – St. Jerome
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. – St. Jerome
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. – St. Jerome
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. – St. Jerome
