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.

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Expect much of God, and he will do much for you.

Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.