Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.