If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

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

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.