A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

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

"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

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.

At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.