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.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.