Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

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.

Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.