We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort, but few who desire His suffering. All want to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for Him. He writes; there are many who admire his miracles, but there are few who follow in the humiliation of the cross.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.