Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.