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

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

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

... 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.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

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