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

It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

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

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.