Grace is necessary to begin and we need more to persevere to the end (I:346).

We are lost in admiration at seeing how Providence thinks of your concerns and provides for all that you need (I:346).

Our days are numbered and we cannot add a moment of life to the last one God has determined for us (I:346).

He who from all eternity has chosen you to assist the poor will preserve you as the apple of His eye (I:346).

As for servants, you must pay them great honor and treat them kindly, cordially, and most respectfully (I:344).

The good God, who has ordinarily provided you with everything at the right moment, will not abandon you now (I:342).

How true it is that the world is filled with misery! Courage, we must put up with our own and with that of others as long as God pleases (I:340).

Sick minds need to be cared for more delicately and charitably than people who are physically ill (I:332).

In His admirable Providence, Our Lord allows holy fathers and mothers to suffer anguish from their own flesh and blood (I:315).

Remember that the faults of the children are not always imputed to the parents, especially when they have had them educated and have given them good example (I:314).