While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.