If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.