The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?