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.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

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.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.