Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

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

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.