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

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of God; seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.