Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

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

Habit is overcome by habit.

It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.