We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

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

Practice humility and patience.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which others can be tormented. . . . Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil.