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.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.