You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.

You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to the whole house, tomorrow you will be out of sorts, indolent, and a source of affliction to others. Then you will need their support, as you have supported them.

We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.