Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

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

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.