If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!

I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me!

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.