Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the du…

- Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

- Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

- Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls …

- Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed…

- Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

- Jean-Baptiste De La Salle