What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

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

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

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