If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

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

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

He does much who loves much.

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.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.