What interests you most is our present condition: it is what we would have desired, thorny and difficult, but it is made easier by the unction of grace and alleviated by an all-kind Providence whose help is never withdrawn and whose protection is felt at every moment.

Profit by the little trials that come to you, for through them we make real progress.

Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.

How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.

The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble.

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.

Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours.