I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.