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.

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

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