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

Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal ray of love on all people. For wherever love disappears, hatred immediately appears in its place. And if God is love, then hatred is the devil. Therefore as one who has love has God within himself, so he who has hatred within himself nurtures the devil within himself.

The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.

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.