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

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.