The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.