He who is not getting better is getting worse.

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

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

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

To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.