since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.