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

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

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.

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.