If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

What thou art, that thou art.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.