No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.