We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.