Get used to thinking of things and persons, always and in all things, in the best possible light. If a deed has a hundred aspects, said the blessed Bishop of Geneva, always look at it from the best side. (…) I have naturally the vexing habit of judging everything and everyone by my own wretched self, but experience has taught me what a joy it is to approach things differently and how God blesses this way of behaving. [p. 92]

(St Vincent de Paul. From Jacques Delarue, The Holiness of Vincent de Paul, Geoffrey Chapman Ltd, London 1960, 132 pp)