Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.

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

If your men grow weary of the work or balk at obedience, you must bear with them. Get what you can gently from them. True, it is good to be firm in attaining your goal, but use appropriate, attractive, and agreeable means.

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

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

[N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way; they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish.