The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.
Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.
I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.
If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous.