Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.

I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.