If the Company takes my advice, it will always be preserved through this maxim, for if we are good, we will not lack any, and if we are not, we already have too many houses anyway, and can hardly fill the few we have.

If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else.

The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!

Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.