Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.

If we love Jesus, we shall be loved in return by Him, and that is perfect happiness.

If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.

God alone and the desire of His glory - nothing else matters.

He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.

You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.