You learn to love by loving.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.