To Love Our Neighbor In Charity Is

Do Not Desire Crosses, Unless You Have Borne Those Already Laid Upon You Well — It Is An Abuse To Long After Martyrdom While Unable To Bear An Insult Patiently.

Never Be Hurried In Anything. Do All Things Calmly And In A Spirit Of Repose. Do Not Lose Your Inward Peace Even If Everything Seems To Be Going Wrong. What Is Anything In Life Compared To Peace Of Soul?

True Humility Scarcely Ever Utters Words Of Humility.

We Can Never Attain To Perfection While We Have An Affection For Any Imperfection.

Many Great Persons Have Been Of Opinion That Love Is No Other Thing Than Complacency Itself, In Which They Have Had Much Appearance Of Reason. For Not Only Does The Movement Of Love Take Its Origin From The Complacency Which The Heart Feels At The First Approach Of Good, And Find Its End In A Second Complacency Which Returns To The Heart By Union With The Thing Beloved--but Further, It Depends For Its Preservation On This Complacency, And Can Only Subsist Through It As Through Its Mother And Nurse; So That As Soon As The Complacency Ceases, Love Ceases.