In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

Love draws forth love.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.