There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.

...a great good is worth being long desired.

We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.

I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.

I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings.