“Eternal life: passing from time to eternity, from transitory struggling for existence common to mortals, to the destiny we trust, where anxiety and struggling for existence give place to confidence and union with every ideal ever dreamed of.”

“We do well to remember how very short, after all, it is till our suffering and our time of merit, too, will be over. Let us offer everything, therefore, to the divine Spouse of our souls, that He may accept it as helping Him to save immortal souls—our own included.”

“Would that we were appreciative as we ought to be! How happy we would be simply in our creation and the faculties we are endowed with and the divine promises of eternal reward.”

“Happiness in this world consists in the hopes we foster. Little children are happy in the vivid hopes that animate them.”

“Many are the rainbows, the sunbursts, the gentle breezes—and the hailstorms—we are liable to meet before, by the grace of God, we shall be able to tumble into our graves.”

“The Blessed Virgin Mary! Next to Jesus Himself, and always with Him, may she ever be our refuge and our stay during this pilgrimage on earth.”