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.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

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

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.