Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.

Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud

You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.