"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."

"Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God."

"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss."

"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor."

"How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves."

"What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer."

"Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back."

"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."

"No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled."

"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."

"Man proposes, but God disposes."

"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver."

"He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure."

"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."

"Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself."

"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."

"Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong."

"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."

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

"Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living."

"An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning."

"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."

"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"

"How quickly passes away the glory of this world."

"Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault."

"At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done."

"Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is."

"What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?"

"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame."

"A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself."

"Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature."