Even if you are ridiculed for being different from ordinary people, bless God for giving you the means of bringing down pride and trampling it underfoot (VI:130).

Is it not better to edify those persons by your modesty than by hiding under a piece of fabric for want of humility (VI:130).

Your patience will be crowned and your pains changed into eternal delights (VI:117).

Since God is all good and all wise, He will turn everything to a greater good (VI:113).

Not every tree that is planted thrives, and not all the crops sown by the farmer produce (VI:81).

Is there any virtue that takes precedence over that of risking one's life for the salvation of the neighbor (VI:72).

One of the things required most in a seminary is to have spiritual persons of deep piety to inspire the seminarians with this spirit, for no one can give what he does not have (VI:71).

Wherever we go, we always take ourselves and our imperfections with us (VI:69).

The virtue of humility is a good remedy for such antipathies because it makes those who practice it lovable and causes people to have greater esteem for their neighbor than for themselves (VI:51).

Forbearance is the bond of friendship that unites hearts in sentiment and action not only among themselves but in Our Lord, in such a way that they enjoy great peace (VI:51).