You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.

He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

...a great good is worth being long desired.