The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.