How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

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.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

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

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.