If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

Heaven is not made for the slothful.