To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

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

Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.