Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.