Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.

Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

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.