Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

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