Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood.