If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

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

In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the merits of him that requires, as into the manner of him that relieves; if the man deserve not, thou hast given it to humanity.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is less shame for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence.