Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

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.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

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.