Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.
Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love...
It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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.
Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity – adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
For man plans, but God arranges.
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
Don’t flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.
Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.