“Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.”

“The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.”

“By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger”

“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”

“Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.”

“He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.”