True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

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

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year?

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.