"Be convinced of this, that to fail in the line of God’s work you have only to decide on the following way of acting: “I will go straight to my goal and not bend, I will act with force and power, and I will think with frankness and always tell people what I think of them”. You will shatter yourself and shatter others, you will pull down instead of building up. You should get what you can without breaking anyone. Besides, at the end if we pay attention, we will easily discover that we ourselves are far from perfection, while wishing it absolutely in others. "

Francis Libermann (Cf. Spiritual Letters, IV, 622, 1850.)