Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.

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.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.