Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.