Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

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 feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.