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

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.