Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.