Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.
He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.
This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.