A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome

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

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

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
St. Jerome

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
St. Jerome

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

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
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

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

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


Haste is of the Devil.
St. Jerome

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

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

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

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

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome

The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. Jerome

They talk like angels but they live like men.
St. Jerome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome