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

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.