Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.