If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

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.

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

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

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

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

The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.