In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.