I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

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

Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.