Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.
Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.