The most essential point is lowliness.

You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves