Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?