One must be firm and unchanging with regard to the end but gentle and humble as to the means (II:332).

The maxims of Jesus Christ and the examples of His life are not misleading: they produce their fruit in due time (II:316).

Never do anything out of human respect (II:315).

God’s Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important (II:315).

Good work, sooner or later speak a much more favorable language than anything done for one’s own ostentation and show (II:311).

If necessity urges us to make haste, then let it be slowly (II:310).

The way to make a tree grow very tall is to lop off its branches (II:310).

This Company, like Our Lord, takes spiritual and temporal care of the sick poor (II:306).

God has preserved you as the apple of His eye (II:290).

Would that God had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation those poor souls so far removed from all assistance (II:288).