You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time

Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.

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

Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences

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

He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.

. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.