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Letter promulgating the decisions of the first General Chapter (11th November 1874)
My very dear Sons in Our Lord, as you know, by Episcopal Order of the 1st of October last, I convoked your first General Chapter for the 11th of the same month. Today, I must report on the decisions of this Chapter and modifications that these decisions entail for the government of your Society.

Letter to Father Deguerry (14 November 1887)
My dear Father,
I waited before answering your letter of 23rd October, until the acrimony it caused had subsided enough to allow me to remain self-possessed. I can say to myself today only one thing: Bonum mihi quia humiliasti me. This is also what I say to myself when re-reading the sad letter in which you summarized, as if with pleasure, with the cold harshness that characterizes you, the insults and calumnies that I have received over the last twenty years. You would have saved yourself such a serious wrong if you had questioned me before accepting as truths hypothèses and reports which are unsupported.

Circular Letter (November 1871)
I leave aside the Mission Seminary, the retirement home for our elderly and even our orphanages. Nonetheless, they have already given us a priceless harvest, since they have saved over eight hundred children for heaven. Eight hundred others, mainly Christian, are today growing and learning how to work and live morally. What I tell you, Gentlemen, is not to make you prideful. I tell you this to give you the courage required in the midst of hardships, trials, contradictions, persecutions and calumnies with which our ministry is assailed from every corner in these sad times. It reminds you that our services, which often we believe sterile, are not in fact so, thanks to the hand of God that sustains us and rectifies our mistakes by his kindness. Therefore, take courage!