We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything (III:382).

May He who has set you apart to instruct His people in salvation maintain your flock in doing good and preserve your Church without stain or wrinkle under your guidance (III:377).

The apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it (III:344).

If temptations are necessary for everyone, they are also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good (III:342).

Man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it (III:342).

Here we want to treat our Brothers as servants, even though it is true to say that most of them are more virtuous than most of us (III:319).

I think the trouble caused in religious Orders by the brothers arises from the fact that they are kept in too lowly a position (III:319).

Honey from your hive flows even into this house and serves as food for its children (III:275).

We are poor people more liable to turn aside His blessings than to draw them down (III:275).

Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on (III:272).