Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

No man is without his load of trouble.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.