Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.