If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.