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.
Saint Francis de SalesIt matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
Saint Francis de SalesA dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.
Saint Francis de SalesEvery Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.
Saint Francis de Sales