Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

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

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

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

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