It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.
No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.