The poor who do not know where to go or what to do, who are suffering already and who increase daily, are my burden and my sorrow (III:492).

Remember that the means for acting in a useful manner in your office are mistrust of self and confidence in the Lord who, if He needed the help of men for the successful outcome of His plans, would have put in your place a Doctor and a saint (III:464).

May God be pleased to give the Company men who are equally zealous in our dear vocation (III:452).

The day will come when the Company will have greater credibility and support, and those who can do good for it will have greater charity for it than they do now (III:448).

Charity converts necessity into virtue by acquiescing to God's good pleasure in all the afflictions we inevitably suffer (III:398).

Let us rely on Our Lord and allow Him to act since it is He who governs and not we (III:385).

Trials from on high are always salutary (III:385).

We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ (III:384).

God raises up and humbles us, consoles and afflicts us, according as he sees us disposed to profit by these states (III:382).

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).