Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.

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

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.