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

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

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

In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.

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

Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.