Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.

Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.

Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.