Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.