Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.