The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

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

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

May not be your peace in the mouth of the men; since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.