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.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

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.

Little opportunities should be improved.

You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.