All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.

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

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

I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.

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

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.

Learn to let others do their share of the work. Things may be done less well, but you will have more peace of soul and health of body. And what temporal interest should we not sacrifice in order to gain these blessings?