I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

Only He who made man makes man happy.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.