What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.