“Truth and humility go well together.”

“Humility preserves charity … The more humble someone is, the more charitable will he be towards his neighbour.”

“A sick doctor does not prescribe for himself, he calls in another doctor.”

“You are neither infallible nor incorrigible.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to humiliate oneself. For there is nothing as difficult as that, nothing we find so much trouble.” [p. 106]

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