Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.
Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.