Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

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