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.

Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

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.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.