Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.