The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.