» Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
» Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
» When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
» Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
» He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
» Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
» Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
» The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
» He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
» Love is friendship set on fire.