Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.