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

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

Pity enlarges the heart.

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

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

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