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

My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.

We must imitate Christ's life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.