It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.

Know all and you will pardon all.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.