Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.