Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

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

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

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