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

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

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.

It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.