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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

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

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

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.

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

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