So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

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

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

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

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.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.