Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.