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

Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon.

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.

We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is never lacking; may it be our consolation.

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.

How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!

There are no difficulties except for those who worry too much about tomorrow.