Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

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.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.