Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.