In Everything, Love Simplicity.

To Lose Ourselves In God Is Simply To Give Up Our Own Will To Him. When A Soul Can Truly Say Lord I Have No Other Will Than Thine It Is Truly Lost In God And United To Him.

If You Have To Do With One Who Is Unquestionably A Slanderer, Do Not Excuse Him By Calling Him Frank And Free-spoken; Do Not Call One Who Is Notoriously Vain, Liberal And Elegant; Do Not Call Dangerous Levities Mere Simplicity; Do Not Screen Disobedience Under The Name Of Zeal; Or Arrogance, Of Frankness; Or Evil Intimacy, Of Friendship. No, My Friends, We Must Never, In Our Wish To Shun Slander, Foster Or Flatter Vice In Others: But We Must Call Evil Evil, And Sin Sin, And So Doing We Shall Serve God's Glory.

And When Children Begin To Use Their Reason, Fathers And Mothers Should Take Great Pains To Fill Their Hearts With The Fear Of God. This The Good Queen Blanche Did Most Earnestly By St. Louis, Her Son: Witness Her Oft-repeated Words, "my Son, I Would Sooner See You Die Than Guilty Of A Mortal Sin;" Words Which Sank So Deeply Into The Saintly Monarch's Heart, That He Himself Said There Was No Day On Which They Did Not Recur To His Mind, And Strengthen Him In Treading God's Ways.

Work Hard Every Day At Increasing Your Purity Of Heart, Which Consists In Appraising Things And Weighing Them In The Balance Of God's Will.

Don't Sow Your Desires In Someone Else's Garden; Just Cultivate Your Own As Best You Can; Don't Long To Be Other Than What You Are, But Desire To Be Thoroughly What You Are. Direct Your Thoughts To Being Very Good At That And To Bearing The Crosses, Little Or Great, That You Will Find There. Believe Me, This Is The Most Important And Least Understood Point To The Spiritual Life. We All Love According To What Is Our Taste; Few People Like What Is According To Their Duty Or To God's Liking. What Is The Use Of Building Castles In Spain When We Have To Live In France?