Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
Know all and you will pardon all.
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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.