If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.

Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee; man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

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

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge; understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand; understanding is the wages of a lively faith and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.