Never Be Entirely Idle; But Either Be

Leave Off That Excessive Desire Of Knowing; Therein Is Found Much Distraction. There Are Many Things The Knowledge Of Which Is Of Little Or No Profit To The Soul.

So Fixed Are Our Spirits In Slothfulness And Cold Indifference That We Seldom Overcome So Much As One Evil Habit.

Confidence Is The Illusion Born Of Accidental Success.

To Be Able To Live Peaceably With Hard And Perverse Persons, Or With The Disorderly, Or With Such As Go Contrary To Us, Is A Great Grace.

If God Were Our One And Only Desire We Would Not Be So Easily Upset When Our Opinions Do Not Find Outside Acceptance.