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

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

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.