The whole world is not worth one soul.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

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

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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.

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.