Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.