Let us keep ourselves always dependent on God's Providence since it pleases him and He sees what is best for us (II:517).

Be most cordial with everyone and spare nothing for the assistance of the sick members of the Company (II:499).

Let us abandon ourselves to the Providence of God and be on our guard against anticipating it (II:499).

Grace has its moments (II:499).

What great missionaries you and I would be if we only knew how to animate souls with the spirit of the Gospel which should make them conformable to Jesus Christ (II:494).

There is a great difference between being a Catholic and being an upright man (II:494).

Excess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it (II:471).

Good living and the good odor of the Christian virtues put into practice draw the black sheep back to the right path and confirm Catholics on it (II:442).

I no more trust in human means for divine ends than I do in the devil (II:433).

The works of God are not sumptuous or showy (II:427).