Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

Run while you have the light of life!

Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.