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

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

We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

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

To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.