A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.