Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim

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

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.

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

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

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

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.