My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

The measure of love is love without measure.

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.