Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

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.

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

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

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