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

Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

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.