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.

I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and a somewhat ineffective way of teaching, since the students rely on their notes and do not exercise either their judgment or their memory, In this way, their minds remain empty while they pile up papers which they will perhaps never look at again.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

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

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.