Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.

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

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.