Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.