We must give our attention mainly to the poor villages, because as far as the towns are concerned, it will never be any different. We are deluding ourselves by dallying in them (I:347).

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).