Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

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

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Temptations discover what you are.

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.