If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.

Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.

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.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

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.

All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.

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