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

God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

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

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.

. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which others can be tormented. . . . Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil.