Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.