If priests are good, the people will also be good (VIII:3).

The obligations of justice have priority over those of charity (VII:633).

One mistake should not be corrected by another (VII:631).

How very precious is a good missionary! God must raise him up and fashion him; that is the work of His omnipotence and His great goodness (VII:626).

If you want to have peace of heart and a thousand blessings from God, do not listen any longer either to your own judgment or your will (VII:589).

May God, in His mercy, be pleased to fill all of us with faith, charity, and zeal for rendering some small service to His Church! Happy are those who, on these foundations, hope in God and consume themselves for charity (VII:575).

We should lament before God at seeing so many needs in the Church and ask the Divine Goodness to be pleased to remedy them and to send good workers into His vineyard (VII:559).

It is not the most learned persons who have the best results but rather those who have greater grace from God (VII:534).

Let us open wide our hearts and wills in His presence, not deciding to do this or that until God has spoken (VII:532).

Let us offer ourselves to God to do and suffer all things for His glory and the building up of His Church (VII:531).