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

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

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.

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

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

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.