do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.

There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.

[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer!

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring