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

[L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for this and redouble our confidence in God.

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him

Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

Cast from your heart the bitterness.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

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.