Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Act your part with honor.

You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.