The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

What thou art, that thou art.

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.