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

No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.