It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.