Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.