Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does no harm to your body.