Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.

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.

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.