O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

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

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.