Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

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

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.

Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.

Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.