To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

We must imitate Christ's life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ.

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

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