If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.