切勿做及書寫可能帶來苦澀或嚴厲的言語。 Do nothing and write nothing that may be the occasion of any bitterness or harsh words.

最好的克己是較尖銳的刺痛，傷害較小， 身體因此承受更大及持續的苦惱。 The best kind of mortifications are those that, while their sting is sharper, do less hurt: for by these the body is afflicted both more annoyingly and more lastingly.

強烈憎恨別人的缺失導致疏遠而非改善， 令人逃避，對他們沒有幫助。 To hate the shortcomings of others too keenly is productive of estrangement rather than amendment, and serves to put people to flight rather than to help them.

切忌為滿足他人，承諾超過自身能力所及的事。 Never tickle a man’s ears with promises too great for your actions to correspond with them.

對人講論天主，即使是最低級的事理， 都能令他獲益良多。 You cannot speak of the things of God to any man, even the worst, without his gaining much profit thereby.

世上沒有野獸比魔鬼更執著、激烈、兇猛地傷害人， 為實現牠要毀滅我們的惡毒及頑固的渴望。 There is no wild beast on earth fiercer, keener, or more persistent in injuring man than the devil, that he may fulfill the desire of his malicious and obstinate mind for our destruction.

目標既定，竭力跟隨， 踏上成全之路，達到圓滿。 We must strive as hard as we can to lay hold of that we follow after, and having entered the way of perfection, attain to what is most perfect.

看哪！每個人仍對天主的無知，令人深感憂傷！ Behold, with heartfelt and deep sorrow, in what great ignorance of God everyone remains!

光以意志服從的人，理智仍未順服， 只過著跛腳的修道生活。 Those who obey with the will alone, while their reason is still unsubdued, walk lamely in the religious life.

主，除祢以外，我需要甚麼？ 我還能要甚麼？ Lord, what do I want, what can I want, apart from thee?

迫害是煽動德行火焰的風箱：天主容許迫害，因為缺少迫害，我們的力量將漸次寂滅， 無法正確行事。 Persecution is the bellows that fans the flame of our virtue: if it were lacking—which God forbid—our strength would die away and not perform its task rightly.

由於大自然的豐厚恩賜，運氣好的世俗人， 亦同樣更成功地熱心顯露主的光榮。 Those who in the world would, through nature’s bounty, have met with the best fortune have likewise greater success in zealously showing forth the glory of God.