Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

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.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

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

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.