O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

If we all were judged according to the consequences
Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention
And beyond our limited understanding
Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.