If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.

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.

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

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.