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.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.

It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it, especially those who have given themselves to God; his own Son even passed through this trial. But if it is necessary for everyone, it is also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good, as you do.

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.

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

...a great good is worth being long desired.