The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.