May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!

An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.

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

Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience.

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.

Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.