The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.