Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

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

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.