We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.