Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.