If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!

It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

I can understand that the man you told me about has offended you, and I am very annoyed that he forgot himself like that. However, you must not consider what he did as coming from him but rather as a trial which God wishes to make of your patience. This virtue will be even more a virtue in you who are more sensitive by nature and have given less cause for the offense that you have received.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.