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.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.