Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.