He who complains, sins.

Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory.

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.