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

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers

Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.