Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

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.

Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

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

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.

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.