We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all.