Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.