Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them selves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.