Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

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

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.